http://www.goodall.com.au/australian-aviation/narratives/saabsafir.pdf[ATTACH=full]39504[/ATTACH]The Safir, now registered VH-BHG taking part in another air race. Pictured at Jandakot WA 19 October 1976 at the start of the 1976 Benson & Hedges Australian Air Race from Perth to Sydney. Sponsors insignia for Bonds Gotchya underwear is on the fuselage behind the race number 234. On the tail fin is the infamous Dick Smith zap when stickers promoting Dick Smith Electronics were applied overnight to every race entrant. Photo by Neville Parnell
Dear wife (op shopping again!) brought me home an 'unbirthday' present today in the form of Participant Crew Briefing Notes for the abv ref air race. No listing of aircraft or crews involved and obviously no record of who/what the results were and my subsequent 'Googling' has produced nowt! Idle curiousity as I wasn't even in the country at the time but can anybody point me in any direction that might provide amplifying data on this event? cheers Riley
Hi Riley ( nice looking wheels too )
Came across Recreational Flying by accident when doing my own searching seeing as 1976 was 40 years ago and so memory is hazy but in 1976 I was in Broken Hill and myself and a couple of other guys took our BH Aero Club Piper Archer VH - UQK across to Perth and successfully completed the race, finishing just outside the top 10.
This post is about a year after the last but if you are interested Riley, I'll dredge up the memory into something of a day by day description and some day I might even be able to find my race booklet which I am pretty sure has a listing of entrants, our number remembered for sure being No. 211
Australian Air Race (Perth-Sydney, 20/24 Oct, 1976)
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Hi Riley ( nice looking wheels too )Came across Recreational Flying by accident when doing my own searching seeing as 1976 was 40 years ago and so memory is hazy but in 1976 I was in Broken Hill and myself and a couple of other guys took our BH Aero Club Piper Archer VH - UQK across to Perth and successfully completed the race, finishing just outside the top 10.
This post is about a year after the last but if you are interested Riley, I'll dredge up the memory into something of a day by day description and some day I might even be able to find my race booklet which I am pretty sure has a listing of entrants, our number remembered for sure being No. 211